Lorcan Dempsey

Quantity has a quality all its own. A focus on quality is one reason that libraries, archives and museums have

Name authority files are often national in scope and will be created under different policy regimes. This is the rationale

I find it convenient to think about current library systems activities in terms of support for three materials workflows: bought/

The things that are interesting…. 😉 See Andy Powell [https://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2007/10/andy-is.html] and Jon Udell

We have become used to managing collections of digital resources: images, music, citations. Zotero [https://www.zotero.org/] is one

So here is a chart showing the choices made by those of my Facebook ‘friends’ who chose to disclose political

Facebook invites participants to disclose their political views. Different national contexts are shaped by different political forces. The Facebook selection

There was some discussion a while ago in various places about the relative merits of bookstore and public library shelf

Major ‘memory organizations’ face significant challenges as the volume and variety of what is within their potential remit to collect

From Seamus Ross’s keynote [PDF [https://www.ecdl2007.org/sross_draft_ECDL_paper.pdf]] at ECDL: > I might

We use the following collections grid from time to time to help focus attention on particular collecting patterns in libraries.

An interesting report [pdf [https://www.lib.umn.edu/about/scieval/Sci%20Report%20Final.pdf]] from the University of Minnesota